Thanks very much! Colin On 23 Apr 2013, at 20:14, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure you need a special font for this. Shadows are just another standard > font effect like bold or underline. For example, in text edit you can type > some text and then do a select all. Then choose Format->Font->Show Font from > the menu or just hit command-T. The tricky bit is that the font box doesn't > always appear wide enough to house all the options and so it hides the lesser > used ones. To fix this find the Zoom control in the window chrome and action > that to make the Fonts window bigger. Then you'll discover text shadow is a > checkbox right after the document color button and a 'dimmed image'. > > There are more controls after that. First will be three more dimmed images > followed by a 'shadow angle circular slider' which sets which direction the > shadow is to be cast. 50% is where the shadow is south of the text, 0% is > north of the text, 25% is east of the text and 75% is west. You can pick > anything in between so to have the shadow to the southeast you would want > about 37%. After that control is the same information in degrees. Its a > little odd because you can still arrow to adjust the value but it will only > read off the % as you adjust and you'll have to VO left and right to have it > read the degrees again. Same kind of thing but 180 degrees is west and 360 or > 0 degrees is east. Anyway, once your shadow is on and you've picked the angle > you can VO right to set the opacity, blur and offset sliders. This is where > I'm not clear what the normal values are since I've now played with > everything. I suspect the initial opacity is 33%, blur is 0% and offset is > about 15% (mine says 14.3%). > > One other annoying thing is that the font menu is one of those 'not really a > window' windows so if you command tilde away to go back to the document you > can't command tilde back to the font window. You either have to do VO-F2 > twice to pick it again from the window chooser or command-T twice, once to > hide it and once to open and move focus to it. The second solution though > faster to type will not put focus back where you left it since the window was > closed and re-opened. > > Hope this helps. > > CB > > On 4/23/13 11:42 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: >> OK I'm not familiar with font names and do not know if this is available and >> I'll try my best to describe it! >> The font I wish to find when looked at visually looks like the letters stand >> out from the page so the letters have a shadow but have no clue what name >> that font will have if it even exist's! >> Any help welcome! >> Colin >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
